Folk Art category: 85 books
Crafting Tradition
The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western consumers seek to connect with the authenticity and tradition represented by indigenous folk arts....
by Eric A. Eliason
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Jesus, matadors, panthers, bandits, Indians, movie stars, waifs, and, of course, Elvis are recognized icons of the oft-despised, uber-kitsch art form of black velvet painting. In Black Velvet Art author Eric A. Eliason and photographer Scott Squire present a comprehensive overview of this covertly-loved...
Between Art and Artifact
Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Oaxaca is internationally renowned for its marketplaces and archaeological sites where tourists can buy inexpensive folk art, including replicas of archaeological treasures. Archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals sometimes discredit this trade in “fakes” that occasionally make...
by Barbara Calamari, Sandra DiPasqua
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A treasury of the devotional art that has comforted and inspired millions of Catholics—portraying a remarkable gallery of saints.
Often used in daily rituals or given out at significant life events such as wakes and funerals, communions and confirmations, the holy card can be appreciated...
by Suzi Parron
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Suzi Parron, in cooperation with Donna Sue Groves, documented the massive public art project known as the barn quilt trail in her 2012 book Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement. The first of these projects began in 2001, when Groves and community members created a series of twenty painted...
Hecho a Mano
The Traditional Arts of Tucson's Mexican American Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Arts as intimate as a piece of needlework or a home altar. Arts as visible as decorative iron, murals, and low riders. Through such arts, members of Tucson's Mexican American community contribute much of the cultural flavor that defines the city to its residents and to the outside world. Now Tucson...
The Island of Lace
Drawn Threadwork on Saba in the Dutch Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Nicknamed the “Island of Lace,” the Caribbean island of Saba is the smallest special municipality in the Netherlands. Folklorist Eric A. Eliason, at the behest of the president of the Saba Lace Ladies’ Foundation and Saba’s director of tourism, traveled to the island with the intent to document...
by Lance Woolaver
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Maud Lewis has become one of Canada’s favourite folk artists, and her buoyant winter pictures of nature, pets, farm animals, and people at work and play are among her most charming. Her hands were twisted with arthritis, but Maud earned her living by painting Christmas cards and pictures and selling...
The Creature Garden
An Illustrator's Guide to Beautiful Beasts & Fictional Fauna
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The Creature Garden takes you on a step-by-step expedition through the natural world, teaching you how to draw and paint 50 animals in a whimsical folk-art style. Your guides on this journey are the husband-and-wife illustrator team Harry and Zanna Goldhawk, the founders of Papio Press, who will teach...
by Bruce West
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Bruce West's color photographs document the spiritual and creative work of a self-proclaimed preacher, artist, architect, the Reverend H. D. Dennis, and his wife, Margaret, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. This book explores the fantastic world of the elderly couple who devoted more than twenty years of...
Great and Noble Jar
Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In Great and Noble Jar, Cinda K. Baldwin offers the first authoritative study of South Carolina stoneware and traces the ways in which a rich regional tradition emerged from a unique cultural source.
As Baldwin notes, South Carolina's old legislative district of Edgefield (an area now comprising...
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings. (Part 1)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings By: Dr. Harpal SodhiThe book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show...
Master Minds:Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings. Part 3
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, #3
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings The book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show pieces to adorn rich homes, museums...
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art
A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art practices, the emphasis...